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Language

Mostly in German, with significant sections of the text in Latin. Some notations on the front and back end-leaves (dating from later than the text itself) are in Latin

Origin

Written in Lutzemburg (i.e., Luxembourg, f. 1r) or Germany (Zacour-Hirsch), 1570-1574. The date 1570 is given on the title page (f. 1r) and also on f. 30r. The dates 1571 (f. 88r) and 1574 (f. 48v) appear in association with passages that seem to have been added subsequent to the writing of the rest of the text.

Date

1570-1574

Place

Luxembourg

Summary

The majority of the manuscript comprises an approximately complete copy of Valentin Boltz's Illuminierbuch (Basel, 1549), on the practice of illumination of manuscripts, and the artistic use of pigments. The version of the title of Boltz's work given on the title page seems to correspond to that of editions published from 1552 on. With respect to the content of Boltz's work, the manuscript begins with the preface (f. 3r-4r), followed by a section on the preparation of inks (Von Dinten; f. 5r-6v) that occurs near the end of the published work. Roughly the second half of the manuscript corresponds to what seems to be the entire rest of the text (f. 51r-108v). In the first half, the manuscript contains additional material (f. 7r-48v), written partly in Latin, that appears to concern the same subject matter. The last part of the subtitle given on the title page refers to a division into seven books; however, the only noticeable division into books is a reference to the beginning of the third book (Incipit liber tertius; f. 88r), which occurs at the point corresponding to the beginning of the second of two books in Boltz's published work.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Extent

102 leaves : 155 x 198 (100 x 160) mm. bound to 156 x 200 mm

Foliation

Paper, 102; 1, 3-39, 42-48, 51-72, 74-108; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary foliation sometimes partially or fully lost due to the trimming of pages. The following leaves appear to be missing: 40, 41, 49, 50, and 73. Folio 2 skipped in contemporary foliation but no leaf appears to be lacking. Additional leaves appear to be missing at the end of the manuscript.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in a German cursive script with humanistic cursive book script for Latin passages.

Provenance

Formerly owned by Maximilian Heinrich, Archbishop of Cologne: "Wir Maximilian Heinrich Ertzbischoff zu Kollen" (f. 4v) in brown ink (likely contemporary with the notes written in Latin on the endleaves).